Author: Arundhati Roy
I never got around to reading her popular book. In this book, she shadows the Maoists and gives us a good picture of the government Vs Maoists. Its a volte face when with Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas act or PESA 1996, she shows that its the Maoists who are fighting for whats in the constitution. She makes us understand the motivation of all the parties involved.
I like the way she rewrites some speeches the way she should be if they were to reflect truth. She places the current situation in the context of India's past as well as the current global context. Quickly she brings up readers unaware of the issue to speed.
She calls the the 'people who live with their dreams , while the rest of the world lives with it nightmares'. When she says that Maoists use the road not to walk on them but cross them paints the alternate life from mainstream, a Robinhood style life.
Kondha tribe. The book talks about the amount of digging to be done for a certain amount of Bauxite which will then be converted to Aluminium. There is also an estimate of the residue. I wonder when we were taught the chemistry of Bauxite, why were we not taught the implications of the equations from an ecological point of view.
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